Saving Kids from a Mysterious Disease. Plastic Surgery Hot Topics with Rod J. Rohrich, MD

In this video, Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery" uncovers how a reconstructive microsurgery procedure can stop a rare progressive disease in its tracks.

Read the November 2018 PRS #PlasticSurgery article, "A 26-Year Experience with Microsurgical Reconstruction of Hemifacial Atrophy and Linear Scleroderma " by Chen, Schmid, Isreal, and Siebert.

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